Composers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIs it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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